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6. prepares students for secondary school;
7. engaging, student-centred;
8. holistic learning;
9. students take responsibility for their learning;
10. use of differentiated type of teaching and learning;
11. Good that students could give their own ideas instead of teacher coming up with

everything.
12. I liked it. The way projects were done in CPEA was different. Students got the chance

to choose what they wanted to research.
13. The oral aspect helped, as many who were silent spoke. Groups gelled and this has

spilled over to Grade 5. The approach brought out a sense of ‘discovery’. Leadership
qualities came out. For example, a student was never spoke much before commented
during a group activity: “Miss, I don’t think this group thing is working. I called
everybody last night and nothing”. However, when she brought everybody into shape,
the result was excellent.
14. My marking style changed. I was forced to find meaningful words rather than ‘good’
etc. I have even ended up writing 2 paragraphs of meaningful feedback to students.
However, it was time-consuming so I had to find different strategies to give feedback.
I reserved the major notes for special children and spoke directly to some.

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